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title: Real talk, what is the house in the wood like? — Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what is the house in the wood like? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…

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Real talk, what is the house in the wood like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** house, wood

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/849-pg27200-part60/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t12:1
# text = Real talk, what is the house in the wood like?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Real talk | the house |  | the wood |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the house was old and dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t12:o1:1
# text = the house was old and dark
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the house was not there where they expected

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t12:o2:1
# text = the house was not there where they expected
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **expect** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it was a warm brown cottage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t12:o3:1
# text = it was a warm brown cottage
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a warm brown cottage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the house was small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t12:o4:1
# text = the house was small
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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